Data Center News

Banorte partners with Hitachi Vantara on data center migration

Mexico City / Ciudad de México

 Mexican financial institution Grupo Financiero Banorte has partnered with Hitachi Vantara to migrate its operations from a Mexico City data center to a facility in Querétaro and upgrade its mainframe storage environment. According to Banorte, the migration was motivated by a desire to reduce ...

HighBrook Closes First Data Center Fund Targeting 300MW in Virginia

Virginia

 Private equity firm HighBrook Investors has closed its first US data center fund, securing $266 million in total commitments. The launch of the fund was first reported last year. HighBrook said the fund saw contributions from existing investors alongside new institutions, including leading en...

NDC has Acquired a Data Center in Rennes from French Insurance Company Groupama

Nation Data Center (NDC)

French firm Nation Data Center (NDC) has acquired a facility in Rennes. The company this week announced the acquisition of a data center from insurance firm Groupama. Terms of the deal were not shared. Located in Mordelles and built in 2011, the 3,040 sqm site includes 960 sqm of IT space acro...

Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin

Meta

Meta Platforms has reportedly signed a pre-development agreement with the Town of Beloit for a potential data center project in southern Wisconsin. According to the Beloit Daily News, the facility could be built on a 430-acre site located between Town Line Road, South Prairie Avenue, and East ...

Vintage Partners Abandons Phoenix, Arizona Data Center Plans

Arizona

Vintage Partners has scrapped plans for a data center in Laveen, Phoenix, Arizona. The developer will instead move forward with a mixed-use project on the 63-acre site, featuring commercial, retail, restaurant, and multifamily residential space.Vintage changed course at the request of the City...

Elon Musk’s xAI to Spend $659M on New Memphis Data Center Facility

xAI

Elon Musk’s xAI is significantly expanding its "Digital Delta" footprint. As of March 2026, the company has filed a $659 million building permit for a new 312,000-square-foot facility at 5414 Tulane Road in Memphis.This latest development is part of an aggressive scaling strategy to push the C...

Digital Realty has Entered the Portuguese Market with the Acquisition of a Data Center in Lisbon

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has entered Portugal, acquiring a data center in Lisbon. Details on the facility, the seller, and terms of the deal weren’t shared in the release. However, in its recent Q4 2025 results, the company said it had acquired “a building and land” in the Carnaxide area of Lisbon for $...

Google has Confirmed it is the Company Behind the Planned 403-acre Data Center Campus in Hermantown, Minnesota

Google

Google has confirmed it is the company behind the 403-acre data center campus project in Hermantown, Minnesota.As reported by MPRNews, Google has confirmed its role in the development, describing the area as a "natural fit for this project, offering a climate that supports energy-efficient air...

Pennsylvania Lawmakers could Propose a Statewide Data Center Moratorium

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania lawmakers may soon put forward a proposal for a statewide moratorium on new data center developments.In a memo circulated to members of the Pennsylvania Senate on February 12, Democratic state senator Katie Muth said she plans to introduce legislation “in the near future” to impos...

A $5 Billion Data Center Project is in Development near Columbus, Georgia

Georgia

A new data center campus may be on the way to Columbus, Georgia. Economic development organization Choose Columbus announced that the Development Authority of Columbus is in negotiations with Habitat Partners to secure a site for the proposed project.Project Ruby would be a $5 billion+ data ce...

Australia’s CDC has Opened a New Data Center Campus in Melbourne

Australia

CDC, one of Australia’s largest data center companies, has opened a campus in Brooklyn, Melbourne. The two-facility campus was inaugurated last Thursday with government officials in attendance, including Australia’s assistant treasurer, Daniel Mulino.CDC has not disclosed details about the cam...

Penzance is Targeting the Development of a 600MW Data Center Campus in West Virginia

Penzance

Real estate firm Penzance is developing a large data center campus in West Virginia. Governor of West Virginia Patrick Morrisey last week announced Penzance Management would be investing $4 billion in a data center campus in the state.Situated on 548 acres in Berkeley County’s Falling Waters D...

Hochtief has Broken Ground on its Latest Yexio Edge Data Center in Dorfen, Germany

Germany / Deutschland

Construction company Hochtief has broken ground on a new timber-built edge data center for Yexio in Dorfen, Germany. The facility is being developed on a 7,500 sqm (80,729 sq ft) site at the Southwest Industrial Park in Dorfen, located in Bavaria’s Erding district, east of Munich.Hubert Aiwang...

Plug Power Plans to Sell its New York site to Stream Data Centers

Stream Data Centers

US hydrogen developer Plug Power has agreed to sell a New York site, originally planned to host a clean hydrogen project, to Stream Data Centers for $132.5 million. The hydrogen developer has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Project Gateway site at the STAMP industrial park in New Yor...

Top Data Center News for 23rd to 28th March, 2026

Amazon to Invest €33.7bn in Data Centers in Aragon, SpainAmazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest an additional €18 billion in Spain, bringing its total data center infrastructure investment in Aragon to €33.7bn, making it the first major technology company to build data centers in Teruel, co...

Boom Supersonic Taps Baker Hughes for Natural Gas Generators to Support 1.21GW Crusoe Data Center Power Deal

United States

Aircraft developer and natural gas turbine provider Boom Supersonic has selected US energy firm Baker Hughes to supply gas-generation equipment to complement its 42MW natural gas turbine platform. The equipment will support a 1.21GW onsite power agreement Boom has signed with AI data center de...

AWS UAE hit by AZ Outage after Objects Strike Data Center, Causing fire amid Iran Tensions

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability Zone in the UAE is experiencing an outage after being “impacted by objects that struck the data center.” While AWS has not disclosed further details, the incident comes amid ongoing missile and drone attacks on the UAE attributed to Iran.The objects "c...

Digital Realty has Acquired Bulgarian Data Center Operator Telepoin

Digital Realty Bersama

 Digital Realty has acquired Bulgarian data center operator Telepoint, marking the company’s entry into the Eastern European market. Through the deal, Digital Realty takes ownership of Telepoint’s two facilities in the capital, Sofia where the majority of Bulgaria’s data centers are concentrat...

atNorth sold to Equinix and CPP Investments in $4.2bn deal

Nordic data center firm atNorth is set to be acquired by Equinix and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) in a $4.2 billion deal. Current owner Partners Group said on Friday it had agreed a deal to sell atNorth in a transaction with an enterprise value of $4 billion.News that Equinix...

MARA has Entered Into a Joint Venture Agreement with Starwood to Expand its US Data Center Portfolio

Starwood Digital Ventures

Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) has signed a strategic agreement with Starwood Capital Group and its data center platform, Starwood Digital Ventures (SDV), to convert and expand selected sites for enterprise, hyperscale, and AI workloads. SDV will manage the design, development, tenant acquis...